For me, these images are objective distillations of the meeting of fantasy and reality in contemporary experience, as manifest in childrens toys. The figures are playthings, ostensibly fictional, yet miniature incarnations of existing real world ideologies. The combination of mass production and realistic, detailed design in the dolls results in a contradiction of crudeness and refinement. These qualities, along with the manufacturers motive of profit, led me to consider the power these objects of socialization serve in our culture. Aggressive hypermasculinity, startling embodiments of plastic testosteronesomething of these characteristics must be absorbed by the boys who play with them. Visually, I wanted to convey their potency by centering, head shot-like on their faces and magnifying their 1 or 3/4 heads 30 or 40 times.